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Who Said Lawyers Don't Have a Sense of Humour?

Published January 15, 2007

If you’re as fascinated as I am by the high stakes (and sometimes bizarre) machinations of the domain name dispute world, then I think you’ll be interested in what I stumbled across recently.

It’s called the Gowlings Domain Name Portal, and it’s a lot more fun than its bland name might imply. Honest.

Launched in April 2006 by Gowlings, one of Canada’s largest national law firms, GowlingsOnDomains.com provides a detailed review of Canadian and International domain name law, with a particular emphasis on .CA domains. It’s the best source of legal information on this topic that I’ve come across to date, and a must-read if you’ve got questions or concerns about domain name law in Canada.

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Blogger Doesn't Suck Anymore or: How I Spent My Christmas Holiday

Published January 8, 2007

Until recently, if you were an aspiring blogger and you asked me my opinion of the blogging software Blogger, I would have gone into a mini rant about how surprisingly clunky and user-unfriendly it is, especially considering it is hugely popular and owned by Google.

Then I would have added that, of course, you get what you pay for. (Blogger is free.) And finally I would have suggested that you’d be better off paying $5 a month for a service like TypePad instead.

That was until this past Christmas.

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